WASHINGTON D.C. IS “A CESSPOOL OF HATRED” SAYS ATTY MC BRIDE. REP TENNEY SAYS JOE BIDEN IS PROJECTING WEAKNESS TO OUR ENEMIES—PUTIN & XI
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The Marxist Dems in the Deep State still have about 900 American citizens who protested, demonstrated, and yes, rioted on January 6th. The J6 defendants, all of them, locked up in prison cells, many of them malnourished, mistreated, in need of medical care, and denied their rights as American citizens, by the Marxist Dems who were in control that day.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show, and welcome. Great to have
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you with us. Let's talk about the video of the protests on Capitol Hill on January 6th,
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the first time the American public has seen video that shows what actually happened that day.
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Fox's Tucker Carlson given access to the video, which was played for the first time this week,
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revealing that the Marxist Dems, who comprised the January 6th committee, lied, distorted,
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and tried to keep secret what really happened in various areas of the Capitol that day. The
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Marxist Dems in the deep state still have about 900 American citizens who protested, demonstrated,
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and yes, some of them rioted on January 6th. The J6 defendants, all of them, locked up in prison
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cells, many of them malnourished, mistreated, in need of medical care, and denied their rights as
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American citizens, purposely by the federal government and the Marxist Dems who were in
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control. The Federal Bureau of Prisons treating those political prisoners brutally, inhumanely,
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and there seems to be no way to rescue them from the barbaric treatment and confinement that could
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be expected in a third world capital, but not in Washington, D.C. The FBI, the federal prosecutors,
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the federal district court judges, are politically corrupt, working together to make the hundreds of
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Americans ensnared in their custody simply their political prisoners, denying them even hope of
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fairness and crushing their rights as American citizens, and making their lives and the lives of their
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families pure hell. We'll be talking with Defense Attorney Joe McBride. He's representing a number of the
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J6 defendants, and as you might guess, he is both angry and sickened by what the American government is
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doing to his clients and all of the January 6th defendants. We're also joined today by Congresswoman
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Claudia Tenney of New York. She's one of the Republican Party's standout representatives. We'll hear her views on the
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Marxist left that has overwhelmed the Democrat Party and is aligned with the deep state, the permanent
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bureaucracy, in controlling the federal government and abusing their power without account or consequence.
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Let's turn first to Attorney Joe McBride. He's fighting the Marxist left's abuse of power almost every day.
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Some of his clients have been in federal custody for more than two years, some only now going to trial.
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Joe, welcome back to The Great America Show, and we thank you for all that you're doing. If you would,
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give us a sense of what's happening in the courts and the prisons in and around Washington, D.C.
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Thank you very much, Lou. It is always great to be here. Thank you for your continued support
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for the January 6 cause and community at large and for all the great work that you've been doing for all
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these years. America is still the greatest country in the world. Washington, D.C. is its capital, and it is
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a cesspool of hatred and disgust. And right now, all of us want to know that there is a way forward
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here for these people. I know your client just was found guilty in a trial. Tell us what happened.
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So, Richard Barnett, famously the guy who had his feet up on a desk in Nancy Pelosi's suite
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of offices. We had the trial. It lasted two weeks and one day. That one day was a day of jury
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deliberation, so the trial itself was a two-week trial. We put on a wonderful case. We impeached
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multiple agents from the FBI. We red-handedly caught Speaker Pelosi's number two lying on the stand,
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two FBI agents lying, just Carpodge lying on the stand. We thought that we had done a great job
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of beating the majority of the charges, especially some of the less important ones. Be that as it may,
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after two weeks of trial, the jury deliberated for two hours, which includes the breakfast, coffee,
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and donuts they had, and they convicted him of every crime charge under the indictment. It's a complete
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travesty and an injustice. So give us all a sense of what that trial was like. I can't, frankly,
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imagine anyone getting a fair trial for any charge in the D.C. area, where Democrats are, what is it,
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10 to 1 on voter registration. It's outrageous. Give us a sense of what it was like to stand there
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before that jury and that judge. Make your arguments for your client. Did they sneer? Did they just
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feign disinterest, or were they truly yawning through it all? It's a great question. So
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Washington, D.C., as you correctly pointed out, 96% of Biden voters on a normal day. When you factor
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in President Biden's comments about MAGA Republicans, the January 6th committee, we know that the jury pool
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was poisoned beyond repair. In terms of jury selection, we had to make an educated guess.
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You have your D.C. local residents, who are largely African American, and then you have sort of your
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liberal transplants, who are your MSNBC white liberal elite Harvard types. We made a conscious decision
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to get the latter, the white elite Harvard types, off of the jury, and we went with the homegrown D.C.
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people thinking, hoping that that community of people would understand what it's like to be targeted,
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would understand what it's like to experience police brutality, would understand and empathize
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with the plight of somebody who has the weight of the criminal justice system bearing down upon him in a
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very unfair way. The prosecution presented its case in a very materially dishonest way.
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They impugned everything that Richard Barnett did for November of 2020 all the way through today.
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They incriminated him for his free speech. Joe? Yes, sir. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I'm thinking
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we're in that trial right now. The judge is up on the bench, and Joe McBride says objection.
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What happened when you did that, when they were carrying on like that?
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We objected to a lot. The judge kind of, if this was a boxing match, the judge sort of let the two
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fighters go at it and, you know, exchange barbs. The problem is, is that when you're fighting against
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the government, one guy is on steroids and the other guy isn't. So they were, they had the full
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power of the government behind them. And when they get up there and when they lie, but they had the gun
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and the badge or they have, you know, all the trappings and dressing, the dressing up of a government
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agency that you can't possibly outcompete that. They have the air of legitimacy with them, whereas our
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guy didn't. It was an unfair fight. We even put Richard up there. He got up on the stand. He said,
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look, I'm stupid. He called himself an effing idiot. He said, hey, listen, there's a lot of
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things I shouldn't have done that day, but I'm not an insurrectionist. I'm not a terrorist. I'm a guy
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with a big mouth who came in from Arkansas, said a whole bunch of stupid stuff, and I should have never
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did it, but I should not go to jail for the next 20 years of my life. They simply did not care.
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Let me put this in perspective. Amongst all the things that he was charged with, he was also charged with
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possessing, was stealing an envelope from Nancy Pelosi's office. In order for him to be guilty
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of that charge, they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he took it with the intent
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to keep it and steal it, that he took it wrongfully with that criminal intent, and that the envelope
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itself had some type of monetary value. Richard bled on the envelope because he was cut. He removed
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the envelope and he left a quarter for compensation just in case he was accused of stealing it. He went
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outside on video and he gave this long speech, but in the beginning of the speech, he said,
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I did not steal this envelope. I took it because I bled on it. And then when he turned himself into
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the FBI, the first thing he did was hand it to the FBI and say, hey, this was not opened. I never
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opened it. I kept it because I bled on it. Here you go. That is an absolute defense to theft of the
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envelope. No value, no criminal intent to keep it. Despite that fact, he even was convicted of
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stealing the envelope. These people had malice in their hearts. They did not care about him.
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They did not care about the criminal justice system. They saw the guy who had his feet up on
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the desk. That guy invaded their hometown and they wanted him to get convicted. And that's why they
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convicted him in record time. I have to ask, did you at any point when you were sitting in there and
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what is effectively a kangaroo? I mean, it's more obscene than even a kangaroo court. Did you ever
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at some point say to the jury, you're absolutely appalling in your prejudice to the judge? Your
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indifference is suffocating. You might as well be lashing this man, you know, with a cat of nine
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tails instead of cross-examining in the witness stand. I mean, this isn't American justice, Joe,
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as you well know. It certainly is not, Lou. One of the big problems that they did, we thought it was
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very, very dishonest. Look, the mask mandate had been dropped in the court, right? But the judge
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gave the jury sort of a, hey, look, you can wear your mask or not wear your mask. So they're in D.C.
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They all mask up. The entire jury mask up. The prosecution wears its mask. Every time the jury
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enters the room, they mask up. But when the jury leaves, they all take the mask off. So as far as
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the jury can tell, the prosecution has the mask on. We don't wear our mask because we think that science
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is garbage. And I told the judge, and I made objections over and over and over and over.
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Number one, they keep talking about COVID. COVID's got nothing to do with this case.
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Number two, the fact that these people are wearing masks on, and I can't see their faces,
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I can't see their facial expressions, it materially prejudices my ability to read the jury.
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And number three, the fact that this side has no mask, and the other side does have a mask. I mean,
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this is ridiculous. We're being impugned here as anti-science, anti-COVID people with a D.C. jury
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who's going to hate us for it. So on top of having to fight this very young trial, we had to deal
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with all that nonsense. It's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. But what is ridiculous, even more
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ridiculous to me, and absurd and gut-wrenching, is of all of the trials that have gone on related
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to January 6th? How many defendants have been found? What is the ratio of guilty to not guilty?
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So there's been a few trials, please, over the past few days. But as of last week, from everybody
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who went to trial, out of 67 trials, 66 convictions, one not guilty.
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Okay. So why isn't somebody saying to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court responsible
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for the administration of the federal court system, Chief Justice, only, only an evil, incompetent
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SOB would not look at these conviction rates and say, we are in the wrong jurisdiction, and
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you are running courts that are absolutely biased and completely uninterested in the Constitution.
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And that is, at best, more likely, perfectly willing to violate every constitutional value
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You know, we filed the change of venue motions in all of our cases. The vast majority, probably
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95%, 99% of everybody who's gone to trials filed them as well. They did not let us out.
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You know, D.C. is the place where you get sent to be executed. This is a thing that's going
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on right now. They know that if one of these cases gets back to Texas or Louisiana or Florida
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or one of these home jurisdictions where normal people are, that these guys are going to walk,
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and they can't afford for that to happen. So what they're doing is they're getting their
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convictions. They're going to force us to appeal these cases all the way up to the Supreme
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Court. I actually think that we've done such a good job of preserving the record and fleshing
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out the constitutional issues in these cases that when we get there, that we can win. But
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you're talking about insane amounts of money and time in order for that to happen. So the
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likelihood of that happening in every case is slim to none because people just don't have
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it. Joe, when you say that, a court system that will tolerate this conduct by the D.C. circuit
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judges, district judges, will tolerate just simply bringing the hammer down on the appellate level
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as well. There is no justice available to these Americans, and we've got to all recognize that,
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and we've all got to deal with it and figure out a way forward that does not include the judicial
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system. We've got to have a political solution to this. These people have been—I'm telling you,
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I'm telling our audience, we all know this—these are the forgotten Americans. These people are
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simply lost. They are captured by the Marxist Dems who are treating them like the enemy. And
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God help them. God forgive them. This is intolerable in this country.
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Yeah, I agree with you, Lou. In terms of a political solution, I am of the opinion,
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and I travel in a lot of circles, and some other smart people far smarter than me are of the opinion
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as well, that if you have, let's say, 25 or 30 red states, and these red states just get together and
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they say, hey, red state number one, I'm going to do business with you, red state number two, three,
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four, and five. I'm going to give you tax breaks because you see the world the way that I see it.
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I'm going to give you this, and I'm going to give you that. And all the rest of those communist states,
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let's not patronize them. Let's not visit them. Let's not do business with them. Let's cut them
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out of our market, and let's see how they do in the long run.
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Yeah, I sympathize with your view entirely. This is still the United States of America,
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America, and we have to bring to bear the force of our values, our beliefs, and confidence in this
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system, the great American system, and come to a resolution.
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Hakeem Jeffries is my congressman, Lou. He doesn't give a damn about anybody but himself.
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Well, let's be honest. He doesn't give a damn. He hates every one of these people,
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and he means to punish them. That's right. He's a Marxist. He is as anti-American as one could
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possibly imagine. These are the realities. You know, Joe, we're going to give you the last word
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here, as we always do. Ask for your concluding thoughts, what anybody can do. But everything
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you're doing, we applaud. I have to tell you, it sickens me to think of how little we can do.
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But God bless you for doing all that you can for these political prisoners.
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Thank you so much, Lou. God bless you and all your readers. If you're inclined to follow me and my
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work, you can find me at McBrideLawNYC across all social media platforms. I update them all daily
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with different types of information regarding our cases. If you're inclined to give to our work,
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McBrideLawNYC.com. Click on the January 6th tab, and you can find a global fund that will go
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to where it's needed most in our January 6th related cases. I want to say a special thanks
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to Speaker McCarthy for, you know, I can't remember the last time a politician said he was going to do
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something and then followed up on it soon. Everybody is not happy with the way that he's
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released the information, but releasing the footage to Tucker Carlson is a very good way to get it
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disseminated to the public in a way that makes sense. And his office has also granted me permission,
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one of the lawyers, and is now beginning the process of granting other lawyers the ability
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to go in and to look at this footage. Absent Speaker McCarthy's yes to us, we would still be locked out
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of this information. We were told by the Department of Justice that there was about 14,000 hours of
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CCTV footage available to us. Speaker McCarthy's office is making 41,000 hours available to us.
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The DOJ has been lying to you, it's been lying to me and the American public the entire time,
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and we will leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of justice so long as myself and my team are on the
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case. Speaker McCarthy has been, and I said you'd get the last word, I'm going to get the last
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question, and you will get the last word, I assure you, Joe. Speaker McCarthy's been criticized for
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giving it to one outlet, and that is Fox News. Is there not a better way to get this material in
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front of all the lawyers who are trying to get their clients free? Is there not a better way to
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have the American people informed than through one gatekeeper? There is a better way, and I share
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your sentiment, and I believe Speaker McCarthy does too. It boils down to the way that the January 6th
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committee turned over the information to him. They gave it to him on an old school kiosk plugged
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into a wall inside of the Capitol building with no real way to reproduce it right away. So a system
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has to be developed in order for that to happen. So as a matter of first impression, he said, what
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lawyer and what person from the TV industry can I get out there to start letting people see this
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information? I think given the fact that I've been given access as an attorney that opens
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the door to the legal community, I think given the fact that Tucker Carlson and his team has been
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given the access, that opens the door to the entire private sector. It opens the door, Joe,
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but what I'm talking about is opening wide the floodgates, because all of that video, as you well
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know, and this, by the way, is not all of the video. Why is there some of the video held back?
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Because the January 6th committee turned over what they turned over to him. They didn't turn over
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everything. So I know he's committed to finding out everything, but when I asked, can I ask a
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question? Of course, how can they still have control of the video? They do not exist any longer.
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No, that's a great question. And what they did was in wrapping up and leaving it like a, like a case
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file and the information for him to go over, they gave them what they gave speaker McCarthy, what they gave
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him. But what they gave him is the CCTV footage and they gave him a hundred boxes with papers in it.
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They cut out everything else. So all the video, all the audio that you heard that animated all their
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hearings, they did not include that and what they turned over to him because they're materially
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dishonest people eventually. Okay. But they're, but they're materially smarter apparently than the
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Republicans. So what I'm asking you, Tucker Carlson is a, is a solution. And I, and by the way, I think
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as a first step, that's fine. But what is needed is a technologist who knows how to record, to expand
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that, uh, those documents, uh, and those files into video across a wide area. That's a technology
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issue, not a journalistic or a programming issue. I agree with you 100%. So as soon as we were given
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access and as soon as I was able to confirm that a member of the public Tucker and his people were
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given access, what I did straight away in Ryan Nichols, his case was I filed a continuance motion
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and I said, Hey judge, we need to pump the brakes on this case. That's supposed to go to trial on March
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27th. We could be, we have been given access. We need to go through this. And because a member of the
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public has also been given access judge, I'm going to ask you to lift the protective orders
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on this case. And if you lift a protective order on this case, we are going to take all of our
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information, publish it and crowdsource the technology to get the entire concerned public
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on the case to help us get down to the truth. That is the first thing I did. As soon as I knew I
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had access, I filed that motion that night. What was the ruling? Uh, we're still outstanding. I'm
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waiting to hear from it possibly today or sometime this week. But as soon as I know, I will let you
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know, because we are chomping at the bit, looking for, looking for a, uh, an answer on that one.
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Well, I know that you're looking for answers on, on so much. Uh, it's got to be at moments
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overwhelming, even to a terrific attorney like you. Uh, but we, uh, again, we applaud you for all of
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your efforts in behalf of your clients and all of the January 6th political prisoners,
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Joe McBride. Thank you, my friend. Great American. Thank you, Lou. Our thanks to Joe McBride for all
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he's doing for his clients and the other J6 political prisoners of the Biden regime. Let's
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turn now to another great American. She's Congresswoman Claudia Tenney of New York.
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She's a two-term Congresswoman, a member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee,
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and sits on the Science, Space and Technology Committee as well. Welcome back, Congresswoman.
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Great to have you with us. Putin has escalated Russia's war with Ukraine. Now China's Xi is
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directly confronting the Biden White House. Biden's foreign policy seems to be failing across the
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board. Your thoughts? Well, first of all, I, I'm very concerned about what's happening around the
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world and the projection of weakness. And we're seeing more and more happen, uh, uh, from our enemies,
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whether it's China, Russia, uh, Iran, whether it's openly or surreptitiously using, uh, Russia or China,
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uh, behind the scenes, uh, as a behind the scenes player. But I'm very concerned about where we're
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going and we could be careening into a really dangerous situation for the United States because
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we have a feckless president who is run by staff that are weak and, uh, really don't understand the,
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the real seriousness of what's happening around the world. Yeah, it's, uh, Congresswoman,
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it's really very difficult right now for me because I've called this man what he is, uh, for some time.
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He is an impaired president. He's a puppet president. And there is no way in the world
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that there is any integrity in the national left-wing corporate media that treats this man as if he were
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a normal, uh, leader sitting in the Oval Office of the, uh, the White House. Do you agree?
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Oh, I, I think this, every time I see Joe Biden on, and I'm full disclosure, I'm where you are, Lou.
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I have never been a fan of Joe Biden. I've always thought he was a talentless, feckless,
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phony, uh, using his, uh, leverage and his position to, you know, enrich his friends and his family.
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All of this is coming to, to, to, to truth. And so many Democrats know it. I mean, all the things
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he says that it would be, uh, look racist and sexist and, you know, from an, from any, from a
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Republican, these would be considered just completely off the rails. But the Democrats act as if the
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emperor has no clothes. They just keep going on. Oh, this is great. Look, isn't, didn't Joe do great
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today? And it's almost like, I think the American people are starting to get it. They're like, wait a
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minute. Like, why are you defending this? But the problem is a lot of people see the alternative
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is Kamala Harris, who is equally just another career politician, very feckless, not really has
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no gravitas. Where's she going? And there really aren't any alternatives. You've got a phony and
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Gavin Newsom who's out there trying to emerge and the Democrats really have no place to turn. And that's
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where I see a huge problem. And, you know, right now, all we have is the leadership on the Republican
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side and a very, very slim majority. And right now we're sticking together. But when you see,
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and this is just my vantage point as a New Yorker, when you see what is happening, uh, in the House
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of Representatives and the minority side, you have someone who is hatched out of the New York State
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Assembly, which has its own set of like really egregious rules, lack of respect for the minority and
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people who are in rural and suburban areas. And the other leader and the actual majority leader in
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the Senate is Chuck Schumer, who was also hatched in the New York State Assembly. You know, the kind
00:25:12.940
of rules that we saw in place when Nancy Pelosi was leader resembled what I saw in the State Assembly
00:25:18.860
when I was a member there, uh, completely an abuse of power, no respect for the citizens, the
00:25:25.120
taxpayers, and they do what they can because they can get away with it. And the media completely
00:25:30.380
supports them. And we'll go to lengths to censor big tech censorship, uh, to whatever level it takes
00:25:38.160
to perpetuate false narratives, whether it's the 51 former intelligence officers who declared with
00:25:44.620
certainty that Hunter Biden's laptop was definitely a Russian disinformation, uh, campaign shutting down
00:25:51.000
the New York coast, uh, Twitter conferring with, uh, with FBI about who to censor and which conservatives
00:25:58.080
and Republicans, the vaccine, uh, and the COVID emergencies and the COVID falsities, lack of science.
00:26:03.940
I mean, you could, you and I, we could go on about what is going on in our country. I think people are
00:26:08.880
starting to wake up, but what concerns me is our education system is churning out students who believe
00:26:14.820
this stuff. They don't have critical thinking skills. They don't look and see further that the
00:26:20.280
media is supposed to have not only certain privileges under the first amendment, but they have certain
00:26:25.380
obligations and they're not meeting those. That's what really concerns me. And the reason they have
00:26:30.200
those obligations and the reason they have those privileges is because they're supposed to enable
00:26:35.500
us as a self-governing constitutional republic. We are supposed to govern ourselves. And I feel like
00:26:41.980
we are at a turning point, uh, where, you know, the Democrats say inflection point, I see this very
00:26:48.080
similar to what Lincoln faced, uh, when he saw the civil war and what's happening with our country.
00:26:53.500
And the real question of the day is, can we be self-governing or are we going to be overrun
00:26:58.920
and taken our, have our freedoms taken away by these endless amounts of bureaucrats that the Democrats
00:27:04.500
keep churning out, whether it's 87,000 new IRS agents, uh, endless bureaucracies being
00:27:11.720
added on all these, uh, alphabet, uh, soup kind of, uh, bureaucracies in Washington. The same thing
00:27:18.200
happens in Albany and these people are crowding out our rights and we're not able to really do
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anything about it. Well, we've chosen, I agree not to do something about it as a people and that has to
00:27:29.920
change or this country is lost. Uh, you are, you sit on one of the most important committees to me in
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the, uh, on two of the most important committees in point of fact, uh, ways and means and space, uh,
00:27:43.380
science, space, and technology. I want to talk about space and science and technology just for a moment
00:27:49.660
because it looks to me like, uh, there's some very serious issues facing our military, uh, are just
00:27:57.240
about every agency you can think of that is involved in either Homeland security or, uh, the defense of the
00:28:04.060
nation. And that is the inability to detect balloons that are the size of three buses, uh, their payload,
00:28:10.660
at least, uh, an inability then, uh, to fire a sidewinder missile when close proximity to a target,
00:28:18.400
uh, a balloon for crying out loud and miss it, uh, a missile that costs $400,000. Uh, and in the case
00:28:26.340
of the F-22 is being fired from platforms, those aircraft costs over $300 million each. And we,
00:28:33.920
we don't seem to have a clue, or at least our leaders are clueless and are not sharing with
00:28:39.400
the American people what's happened here. Basic questions are not being answered from what base
00:28:45.320
in China did they come from? When did they launch? And then we're being told by the Biden administration
00:28:52.840
and the Pentagon that these are not, these are, I repeat, are not Chinese balloons. But meanwhile,
00:29:00.320
the PRC is threatening retaliation against the United States because they acknowledge they were
00:29:07.640
their balloons. How stupid can we get? How unartful can we get with, uh, what is supposed to be advanced
00:29:15.280
technology when we don't even get a, an intelligent reason for why a sidewinder missile was fired
00:29:21.600
at a target that could have been taken down and in better form with a 20 millimeter cannon burst?
00:29:28.440
Your thoughts? Yeah, I think you're, you're hitting on some really important themes there. One of them
00:29:33.940
is I don't believe that we don't have the capacity or the ability to know that these balloons are there.
00:29:39.320
In fact, we may have known, but I think that our bureaucrats have been focused on things
00:29:43.520
that aren't important, whether it's woke culture, whether it's making sure we have,
00:29:47.980
you know, diversity and, and, and in these agencies that are, some of them are part department of
00:29:54.120
defense. Some of them are, are subunits of the department of defense where they should be a truly
00:29:59.980
merit-based area where we're dealing with the defense of our nation and our nation. Many other
00:30:04.660
nations depend on us. And think about this. Remember everybody laughed when president Trump wanted to
00:30:09.620
create the space force, but the space force is important because the Chinese have been spying on us
00:30:14.260
for years without even having to go into space. They've stolen our intellectual property. They've
00:30:19.680
been, they've moved into our, our universities with Confucius institutes. They've moved into our,
00:30:24.940
our spaces in terms of working with our American companies, either in China or, or in, or in the
00:30:31.920
United States. And we've been very naive about all these things. They fired a hypersonic missile around
00:30:37.480
the earth and then we didn't even know about it until they put out a press release. So I think we have the
00:30:43.400
ability, we just don't have our eye on the ball. We're not focused on the things that matter.
00:30:48.020
And I think that that's what I'm really concerned about. And what kind of judgment this is where we
00:30:52.720
have this buffoon, I, I emphasize, I agree with you, Lou, a buffoon in office who doesn't, doesn't
00:30:59.100
know how to react to this balloon that we knew about, by the way, the evidence now reveals that
00:31:04.120
we knew about this balloon when it was actually taking off, when it went across the Aleutian Islands into
00:31:09.480
our airspace and into Alaska, we could have shot this balloon down much earlier, but we allowed
00:31:14.760
it to traverse our entire continent. And then we used it. It was like, you know, shooting fish in
00:31:20.180
a barrel with nuclear weapons, you know, wasting taxpayers' money on the, on the technology and
00:31:25.180
the information we've spent. When you say, I mean, honestly, you probably could have shot down some
00:31:29.060
of those balloons with a 50 cal. You don't even need to have a cannon. So this is the kind of stuff
00:31:34.300
that is what you get when you have a buffoon career politician who has no common sense, and who, to whom
00:31:42.640
the people report to him, either don't have common sense, or they're afraid to tell him the truth, because he
00:31:48.820
doesn't really have the right answers. And this is part of the issue where we have a civilian command, a
00:31:54.320
military report to a civilian command by design, because we didn't want a military tyranny. But we have to put
00:32:00.900
competent people in these leadership positions, people who can make decisions, people who understand
00:32:05.860
the economy, they understand foreign power, they understand foreign affairs, they understand the
00:32:10.660
military, and we're moving away from that. We're getting these career politicians, you know, whether
00:32:15.400
it's Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Blinken, Schumer, I'm just listing off the top five who are in the
00:32:23.360
succession order here. Other, you know, we had Nancy Pelosi. Thankfully, at least we have a Republican in the
00:32:28.480
mix now with Kevin McCarthy, with a very slim majority. So yeah, I am really worried about this. But again, you can go to
00:32:35.000
every aspect of our lives, look at what students are learning. In school, they aren't learning the basics and how to, you
00:32:42.560
know, be self sufficient, how to think for themselves, everything is about what
00:32:47.080
government can do for you. And you think about it, why aren't the Democrats who revere
00:32:51.400
someone like a JFK, you know, John F. Kennedy, who said that, you know, we need to look at what we can do
00:32:56.900
for our government, not what the government can do for us. And he meant, I think what he really means by
00:33:02.100
that is we're back to self governance, it's self governance, or it's communism, and the communists
00:33:06.900
are winning. This is what the Chinese Communist Party is doing. They're dividing and conquering.
00:33:11.380
They're getting us off, you know, off our stride. These balloons, one of them, a couple of them may have been
00:33:16.940
real surveillance balloons, one may be decoys. And now they've got the Biden administration
00:33:21.340
scrambling over something that we should be focusing on the fact that they're still pushing
00:33:25.780
their Belt and Road Initiative. They're still leveraging countries and companies around the
00:33:30.220
world to come to their aid. And we are sitting here not knowing what to do with ourselves,
00:33:34.660
because we don't have leadership. Yeah, we don't have leaders. I mean, let's be real honest.
00:33:40.740
We don't have leaders. It's not about leadership. This is about leaders, men and women,
00:33:46.740
with triple digit IQs, big hearts, and really steely spines who believe in this country,
00:33:54.420
our constitution, and mean for this country to reach its destiny and full potential and equal
00:34:02.100
opportunity for every American, but not equal outcomes. That is beyond the power of either
00:34:07.540
government or anyone other than God. And we have to come to terms with that. And these are,
00:34:13.380
you use the word communist. Indeed, you're right. The Democrat Party is no longer a party of loyal
00:34:19.800
opposition. It is a Marxist, dem-led Democrat Party that is no better than a fifth column in
00:34:27.100
this country working against everything that is fundamentally American, founding values, our
00:34:33.060
constitution, the American way of life. And until the Republicans understand that this is a war,
00:34:40.580
it is nothing less than that with China, until they understand that they are a one party standing up
00:34:48.860
for this country, and they cannot for any reason rationalize further the actions, the behavior,
00:34:54.860
the conduct, and the agenda of the Marxist Dems. I'll leave it with you for your concluding thoughts.
00:35:02.520
We're delighted to have you with us, but we always give our guests the last word.
00:35:06.680
I think we have, I mean, personally, I think we have people out there. I think President Trump
00:35:10.900
proved that he was a great leader. I think Ron DeSantis has proven he's been a strong leader.
00:35:15.720
I think Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton, we have great leaders that I think I look up to in our house
00:35:23.020
right now. People like Ronnie Jackson, who are willing to state and tell the truth about things.
00:35:29.000
We have a lot of good conservatives who are out there fighting the fight. Michael Walsh,
00:35:32.320
who's on top of these issues with China. I think a lot of these people are trying to emerge and move
00:35:37.100
to the top in our country. But we don't necessarily have to have a perfect leadership because Federalist
00:35:43.160
10 said, enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. But when the rest of the system is
00:35:48.340
eroded, and all we have left is this really this authoritarianism and the domination by the top,
00:35:56.460
you lose the ability of leaders to emerge. And that's what concerns me is we have never been in
00:36:01.240
this position. And I think, and I agree exactly with you, this is communism. I lived in the former
00:36:06.600
Yugoslavia. It was a communist country. Although it was a lovely place in many ways, it was a communist
00:36:11.860
country. If you disagreed with Tito, you ended up on a barren island in the middle of the Adriatic
00:36:17.260
Sea. All the qualities of communism were there. And I watched the, as you say, the equity versus the
00:36:23.680
equality of opportunity and the dangerousness and what it does to the human spirit and the human
00:36:28.740
ingenuity. And I saw that, I watched it, and it's very, very hard to emerge out of that, which is
00:36:33.920
why you see these former communist countries struggling. And it's very hard to, once you sink
00:36:39.960
into it, to bring yourself back out of it. And that's where we need to start recognizing it and
00:36:44.240
calling it what it is, as you are. It is communism. It is contrary to everything our constitution is
00:36:49.620
about. And we as Americans need to come, get together and call it out. We can't just say,
00:36:54.420
oh, the NBA's got a lot of money it's making, you know, while they abuse their own citizens,
00:36:59.680
the Uyghurs. And, you know, kudos to Ennis Freedom and people like that who stood up against
00:37:05.600
these people and given up their ability to make money, given up their ability to have gainful
00:37:10.280
employment in their chosen field and have to do something else. Recognize the brave Iranian women
00:37:15.700
who are standing up against a brutal regime that's murdering people in their own, in their streets.
00:37:20.680
This is the kind of stuff that we've got to look through. Those are the heroes that are out there
00:37:24.440
that are going to save the day, not these bureaucrats like Joe Biden and some of these
00:37:28.420
athletes who have really sold their souls to this. We are not about, we are about business,
00:37:33.560
but we're about ingenuity and we're about the human spirit. And I think we're, we're losing that.
00:37:37.600
And I think you're exactly right about communism. I think we just need to start talking about it
00:37:42.160
and explain to people what it means because people say, oh, what's so bad? Communism is bad.
00:37:47.480
Our schools, our colleges are telling students, these are good things. You know, I just read my,
00:37:53.060
I don't mean to carry on, but I just read my college alumni magazine all about how they're
00:37:58.680
going to be having drag queen events and things like that. So students can feel empowered and
00:38:04.180
express themselves. Is that necessary when you're spending $80,000 a year to go to some of these
00:38:09.140
private colleges? Isn't that something you should do on your own while you're in entertainment? Is that
00:38:13.860
what you're going to school to learn? And that's what really concerns me is how we've gotten off,
00:38:18.060
off the beaten path here. We're not really focused on critical thinking and the skills we need to be
00:38:23.720
self-governing and to save the country. The last thing the Marxist Dems want, Congresswoman,
00:38:30.440
is a highly educated, knowledgeable electorate and citizenry. They mean exactly what they're doing.
00:38:38.180
And that is to spend the United States into oblivion and to look at it as nothing more than ashes in the
00:38:46.680
dustbin of history because they mean that to be the result. It is their agenda. And we are playing
00:38:53.880
along. And I don't know how long it's going to take the Republican Party or if they will ever come
00:38:59.280
to terms with the reality that faces every day working men and women in the middle class of this
00:39:04.220
country. The hell with the party of business. This is the party of the American people, working men and
00:39:10.760
women, our middle class, the party that was created by Donald Trump and the damn fools who think that
00:39:17.380
they have that they have a better idea in the Republican Party. Is there a waste of time? And I
00:39:24.480
assure you of that. I promised you the last word, but I had to put in a few of my own thoughts.
00:39:29.640
I agree. I think we're on the same page. We really do need to fight. Donald Trump taught us
00:39:35.520
we're in a war. We need to continue to fight. And just, you know, I look at the three big things.
00:39:41.140
The economy is where they want to destroy us. They want to destroy us on energy. That's,
00:39:45.620
you know, real vulnerability. It's the key to prosperity. And that's a good way to destroy us.
00:39:49.760
And the left is really hurting us there. And elections. And that's what we've learned. And I learned the
00:39:55.840
hard way as with tough elections. But if we don't do something about elections, if we don't start
00:40:00.820
recognizing, fight where we can fight and change the rules like we've done in Florida and some other
00:40:06.040
states. And then in states where we can't change the rules, we've got to do a better job than the
00:40:11.500
Democrats in collecting ballots. And, you know, when people in Pennsylvania say to you, when you say,
00:40:16.780
why did you vote or why did you vote for John Fetterman? And they say, who is John Fetterman?
00:40:21.200
That means we have a problem. And lots of them. Congresswoman Tenney, thank you so much for being
00:40:27.620
with us here on The Great America Show. We appreciate it, as always. Come back soon. And God bless you.
00:40:33.500
Great. Thank you so much. And God bless you for fighting the good fight.
00:40:37.140
Thanks to Congresswoman Claudia Tenney and J6 Defense Attorney Joe McBride. Great Americans,
00:40:43.620
we thank them for joining us. And we thank you for joining us as well. Our guest tomorrow is Devin
00:40:49.020
Nunes, the chief executive officer of Trump Media and Technology Group, the fastest growing social
00:40:55.400
media company in the world. Till then, God bless you. And God bless America.